ACW Reelects Potofsky at Atlantic City Convention
Jacob S. Potofsky was renominated for a full term as president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers during the union’s 16th biennial convention in Atlantic City on May 14. Delegates honored the late Sidney Hillman and urged continued peace and UN support while opposing peacetime universal military training and the third party. The gathering also celebrated southern organizing gains, memorialized Hillman, condemned anti-labor injunctions, and backed international labor unity through the World Federation of Trade Unions.
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Jacob S. Potofsky
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Atlantic City
Potofsky
Sidney Hillman
Cincinnati
Amalgamated
South
Can
Chicago
World Federation of Trade Unions
International Labor Unity
WFTU
Stephan S. Wise
Hillman
O’dwyer
New York
Coney Island Will Open Saturday
Coney Island, the 62nd season at Moonlite Gardens, opens Saturday on Cincinnati's eastern edge. Clyde Trask and his orchestra provide music at the park with swimming pool rides, picnic grounds and other attractions in operation. Increased bus service and a Brent ferry are listed among opening conveniences. The article also notes a Cincinnati union convention with officials and committees named, and sorrow over William Seipel’s father’s death.
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Coney Island
Merk
Cincinnati
U.S. Highway 52
Clyde Trask
Fountain Square
Brent
Grainger's Son Wins Watch on Hello Teacher Quiz
Tom Grainger, son of Walter Grainger from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, won a wrist watch as first prize on the Hello Teacher radio quiz last Sunday. He is in the eighth grade at St. Lawrence School in Price Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Grainger
Walter Grainger
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
St. Lawrence School
Price Hill
John Blackburn Undergoes Surgery at Good Samaritan
John Blackburn of Inspection underwent an operation at Good Samaritan Hospital and is reported home recovering well. Edith Curtis has just returned to work after a recent illness in Inspection. Marie McCarthy, shop office, is ill with a strawberry rash and warns against overindulgence in fruit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Blackburn
Good Samaritan Hospital
John
Marie McCarthy
Edith Curtis
Sacred Heart Festival at Sons of the Sacred Heart
The old-fashioned summer festival will be held Sunday June 6 at the Sons of the Sacred Heart Seminary Forestville Ohio on Rt 125 near Fountain Square. The event runs 11 am to 11 pm with 25 booths games pony track merry-go-round and more plus free shuttle buses from Mt. Washington area. Proceeds aid missionary work among Negroes in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sons of the Sacred Heart Seminary
Forestville
Rt. 125
Ohio Pike
Fountain Square
Mt. Washington
Beechmont Avenue
Burney Lane
Amelia
Sons of the Sacred Heart Society
United States
Also Mentioned on This Page
ACW
Union
Oklahoma
Gladys Dickason
Palestine
Thomas Rankin
Tillie Nunnelly
Cecil Hedges
William Seipel
Housing and Banking Committee
Brother Seipel
Clydé Trask
Grainger
Grossi Furniture & Appliance CO
Main St
Cherry
G. I
Mi-Lady Academy of Beauty Culture
Elm Street
Dixon
WCPO
Y Pressler
East Sixth Street
Formica Notes
By Mae Rist
Sacred Heart
Edith
Charles M. Williams
Norwood
Montgomery Road
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